They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading AttributionsPaul F. Boller Jr. Emeritus Professor of History Texas Christian University, Oklahoma John George Jr. Professor of Political Science and Sociology Central State University Oxford University Press, USA, 1989 M05 18 - 192 páginas Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul Boller, Jr., and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why they should be consigned to the historical trashcan. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, "The best part of valor is discretion"), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with the salutation, "My fellow immigrants"). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin's supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, are blatantly dishonest and falsify the historical record. And others are chillingly vicious, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices that completely distort the views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America, and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln. An entertaining and yet thought-provoking book, They Never Said It sorts out a great deal of history and sets it right, going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions to reveal how conservatives and liberals, atheists and evangelists, all have at times twisted and even invented the words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. It is the ultimate debunking reference, a perfect complement to handbooks of quotations. |
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... Charles Dudley Warner , not Mark Twain , really made ) , and the misquotes ( like Churchill's " blood , sweat , and tears " ) , which are sometimes improvements on the original . But a lot of the phony quotes assembled here were delib ...
... Charles Dudley Warner , not Mark Twain , really made ) , and the misquotes ( like Churchill's " blood , sweat , and tears " ) , which are sometimes improvements on the original . But a lot of the phony quotes assembled here were delib ...
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... " splendid mendacity of mankind . " When it comes to quotations , the mendacity has tended to be sleazy rather than splendid . It's amusing when fundamentalists put a re- pudiation of evolution in the mouth of Charles Darwin as X Preface.
... " splendid mendacity of mankind . " When it comes to quotations , the mendacity has tended to be sleazy rather than splendid . It's amusing when fundamentalists put a re- pudiation of evolution in the mouth of Charles Darwin as X Preface.
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... Charles Darwin as he lay dying . But there is nothing funny about the anti - Catholic and anti - Semitic sentiments which hate - mongers have in- vented and put in the mouth of the prejudice - free Benjamin Franklin . Texas Christian ...
... Charles Darwin as he lay dying . But there is nothing funny about the anti - Catholic and anti - Semitic sentiments which hate - mongers have in- vented and put in the mouth of the prejudice - free Benjamin Franklin . Texas Christian ...
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... helps 7 Pride 8 Safety in numbers Spare the rod 8 8 The wind 8 Bogart , Humphrey Play it again Tennis 9 Boyer , Charles 8 Casbah 9 4 Brezhnev , Leonid Treasure houses of West 9 Burke , Edmund Indict a whole people Triumph of evil.
... helps 7 Pride 8 Safety in numbers Spare the rod 8 8 The wind 8 Bogart , Humphrey Play it again Tennis 9 Boyer , Charles 8 Casbah 9 4 Brezhnev , Leonid Treasure houses of West 9 Burke , Edmund Indict a whole people Triumph of evil.
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... Charles Grandmother 16 Communist Party Directive Label them fascists 17 Congreve , William Music 18 Coolidge , Calvin Hired the money Darwin , Charles Wish I hadn't 19 Devereux , James P. S. Send more Japs 20 18 Dimitrov , Georgi Soviet ...
... Charles Grandmother 16 Communist Party Directive Label them fascists 17 Congreve , William Music 18 Coolidge , Calvin Hired the money Darwin , Charles Wish I hadn't 19 Devereux , James P. S. Send more Japs 20 18 Dimitrov , Georgi Soviet ...
Contenido
Adams John | 3 |
Burke Edmund | 10 |
Dimitrov Georgi | 20 |
Garfield James | 31 |
Gordon | 43 |
Japanese Government Memo | 55 |
Rules for Revolution | 67 |
Win Western world | 77 |
Know theres a God | 90 |
Longworth Alice Roosevelt | 95 |
Otis James | 102 |
Scholz Jackson | 116 |
Voltaire Jean François Arouet | 124 |
Notes | 137 |
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Common people | 84 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading ... Paul F. Boller,John H. George Vista previa limitada - 1989 |
They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading ... Paul F. Boller Jr.,John George Vista previa limitada - 1990 |
They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading ... Paul F. Boller,John H. George Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
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